Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LESSONS OF HISTORY, by Will and Ariel Durant. At a time when nostalgia and/or despair is intellectually fashionable, the Durants argue that the best is probably yet to come, in a witty and perceptive program note to their monumental 10-volume Story of Civilization...
ELGAR: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (Seraphim). The symphony opens with a marchlike tune that charms the listener with its opulence and nostalgia. Unfortunately, the same theme crops up throughout the rest of the work, and though Elgar's variations are inventive, the work lacks variety. The Philharmonia, however, never sounded better. Conductor Sir John Barbirolli gives coherence to Elgar's romantic flights while retaining a special sympathy for their almost Kiplingesque quality...
...supporters are not all bigots, although all but three of his 14 sponsors in Massachusetts are John Birch Society members. Wallace sympathizers are full of frustration, nostalgia and fear, bypassed or assailed by currents sweeping the country: dissent, Black Power, "coddling" of suspected criminals, social-welfare legislation, higher taxes. Whether or not he can translate this into votes, there is no doubt that Wallace is waging a savvy and effectual campaign...
...growing up with borrowed nostalgia," I applaud your most interesting Essay "The Late Show as History" [June 28]. The oldtimers may not have had perfect style, but they had class...
...like real people fat, scrawny, drab, sassy, ordinary. He is caught up in a Jell-O ad, in which a snatch of conversation and a glimpse of beaming faces around the dinner table capture the mood and moment of a young soldier home on furlough. He is washed in nostalgia as a Kodak spot scans a lifetime by focusing on a greying couple as they rummage through old snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, sounds the credo of the new uncommercial makers...